Aniket

Boys' name

Without a home

Aniket has been given to 331 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Aniket, 2024

1 in 669,000

Aniket over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aniket: meaning, origin, and history

Without a home

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aniket means

Aniket means “without a home”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aniket is used in Hindi and Marathi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 331 boys were recorded with the name Aniket between 1996 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2003; its best national rank was #3,187 in 2003.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Aniket?

Aniket had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Aniket sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aniket. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anikets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aniket was born before 2008 — so the typical Aniket is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 51.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 93.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 331; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Aniket rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2003 (29)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,187; 2003

Spellings of Aniket

Aniket is not the most common spelling — Ankit is, with 70.7% against Aniket's 29.3%.

Ankit70.7%799
Aniket29.3%331

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aniket is used

Across 1910–2025, Aniket was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 331,895 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aniket has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aniket around the world

Where Aniket ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2001–2025
#5,137
in 2025
South Australia
2009–2013
#754
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aniket by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,187; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 29 that year
First recorded: 1996
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 331
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Aniket

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Anias Aniel Aniceto Rocket Anival Anis Anik Becket Aniken Anirudh Aniketh Anir Aniko Anibal Bereket Anikin Aniello Anita Anish Aniruddh Aniyis Saket Anirved Anil

Sibling names for Aniket

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shreya Delanie Hailie Kayli Sydnee Iyana Iyanna Laci

For a brother

Jair Keven Kadin Estevan Dallin Keon Zakary Keyon

Explore around Aniket

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